E-ville Challenge Part 2

Robin pretty much had an epic fail with his challenge of me here: E-ville Smack Down. But I will now revise the challenge in a simpler form that even he could manage - a battle between his Tau and my Imperial Guard.

1. 1000 point battle in about two weeks

2. 1500 point battle in about a month

3. 2000 point battle in about a month and a half.

4. Build terrain piece out of junk - two new pieces for each battle.

These three battles will take place on a fallen away human world around a dirty space port like Mos Eisley or some similar. Buildings such as found on this TMP thread would also be good and make great inspiration for #4 above. I would see the space port being rather eclectic if used by multiple aliens as each alien would bring and use their own style of buildings - Tau, Kroot, Vespid, Nicassar, Demiurg, Gue'vesa, etc.

The rules, all battles will be fought using the standard 40k rules. Terrain built for this challenge should be made mostly out of junk. No hard formal rules here for terrain building as coolness factor will be the overriding concern. The guiding principle would be a piece made mostly from scrape with detail bits from any source.

He tasks me! He tasks me, and I shall have him!

So I get an email from Robin challenging me to a small campaign as described in the latest White Dwarf. Something to the effect of playing the following games:

• Warhammer 40k Battle

• Battlefleet Gothic Battle

• Planet Strike Battle

• Apocalypse Battle

Then I get some additional emails and phone calls describing all this ‘progress’ he is making and how he will bury me in the E-ville Smack Down.

Of course, for all this talk all we see on his Blog is a poorly formatted picture of the newest Iron Man movie and some pictures of unpainted miniatures. Well, as we all know, I can put up pictures of unpainted stuff just as well as anyone else. So here:

From left to right: old 40K robot, Thudd Gun, Rapier, and Servators, 2 Steel Legion, plus three new Ogryns. Ignore the two painted units of Steel Legion in the background. We must not show progress with actual painted units.

Outpost Malicious: Imperial Guard Garrison

To kill two Kroot with one stone, I am building my army and terrain for both the ‘Smack Down’ with Robin and the Dark Heresy game I will be starting in the fall. The garrison will be outfitted using forces contemporary to the current GW timeframe. Heresy era is so 31ist millennium. The background for the outpost starts as follows:

Outpost Malicious started as a small armor depot in the Calixis Sector of Segmentum Obscurus. Its role was increased to a prisoner hold facility after the destruction of St. Josmane’s Hope. Criminals from Cadian Imperial Guard units make a lay-over here before being sent to other penal planets. As of late, Outpost Malicious has had its role increased again with the arrival of members from Inquisitor Xenophon’s retinue. They have set up a small research station and housing facility in close proximity to the hold facility.

E-ville Smack Down - A challenge

I here by challenge my E-ville neighbor to an Imperial Guard duel to see who can build the coolest 2000 point Planetstrike Imperial Guard army. Suggested criteria would be:

• Coolest Attacking Force
• Coolest Defending Force
• Coolest Fortifications
• Best use of the word 'Coolest' in army description

The size of the Attacking and Defending forces would be limitted to 2000 points thought the size of whole army could be larger to account for differences in force makeup.